Grief Poem Outcome

I used Lawrie Miller for the voice over which fits absolutely perfectly, the young male with a London accent I feel is someone that a lot of young men will be able to relate to.

Feedback

Really calming and beautiful
Voice works really well, especially the way he pauses allowing the words to impact

I feel it's tricky to get honest feedback with such a sensitive topic but I was really pleased with the overwhelmingly kind feedback, I plan to send this of to mental health / grieving charities, so hopefully people especially young men feel they could also share their experiences. If I had more time I would definitely make sure the floating petals loop as currently everything but these loop; I was worried it would really effects the outcome but it really doesn't, it's almost therapeutic the repetitive nature of it.

Production: Animating & Colouring

Unedited frame animation

I've started adding colour on Photoshop to the petals, leaves and Aloe Vera. I think I want to leave the marks picked up by the scanner, I really like the imperfect aesthetic, it's especially fitting due to the context of healing being imperfect. I need to obviously crop and align it so each frame matches up.

Initially I just had put the darker shade of pink in the centre of the flower, but tried it out with it spilling out onto the petal which I feel looks more organic like so:

It's scary getting to this point an realising I've left out the marks on this one petal... thank god for clone stamp tool.